Title: Worthy
Author: leradny
Characters: Riku, Kairi
(pairing)
Prompt: #29: Overdrive
Word Count: 217
Rating: G
Summary: Riku washes his hands. A lot.
Warnings: This is cliche. But
I've written it as well as I could. Trying is not cliche, is it?
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom
Hearts.
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Worthy.
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Once he gets home...
He washes his hands about a zillion times, but he just can't get the stench out.
...once he gets home.
The blood is there to stay on him. It pumps on him like a second skin, the scabs of dried platelets all over his hands.
The hearts...
You don't stop seeing them when you've got a blindfold on. All of them--hearts. Pumping. At a million different rates with a million different faces smiling at him--crying, laughing, singing, enraptured...
What's strange is that she doesn't seem to care and she touches his shoulder like she's got no reason not to.
Nothing... on his skin.
Nothing...
And he can't wash the guilt away, ever.
He wants...
To be...
Free...?
No.
No, no, no, no, no--this is what he wants:
He wants to get rid of this feeling--like there's something on him. Something he can't wash away no matter how much he swims in the chlorinated pools or salty sea. It makes him feel... dirty.
All.
The.
Time.
All the time!
And he wonders when he's going to stop washing his hands and get on with his life, but for now...
He'll just live with it.
Live with it, until he can summon up the guts to get over it.
And then he's going to finally feel clean.